GIGABYTE 965P-DS3 Motherboard Review :: Gigabyte Special Features

The GA-965P DS3 has a new feature, all solid capacitors. If you've ever had a blown capacitor on a motherboard, you know that the regular Electrolytic Capacitor can and does break off sometimes. It happens on motherboards, it happens on video cards. The GIGABYTE GA-965P DS3 is the first All-Solid Capacitor Motherboard design on the planet, boosting the lifetime of the motherboard.

Solid capacitors

The first S in the DS3 stands for Speed. The board has a wide range of frequency tuning for the CPU/Memory/PCI-E bus speed. The voltage settings are very flexible, allowing for different voltage settings for the CPU/Memory/PCI-Express and Chipset. The BIOS has Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker for automatic overclocking. The drivers CD have EasyTune for overclocking in the Windows environment.